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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 19??-1917 | View Entire Issue (July 6, 1917)
MAKES CLUBBING ARRANGEMENT WITH M M O ffers U nusual Opportunity To Its R ea d ers— M O N G our large circle of readers there are a great m any who are interested directly or indirectly in fruit growing, dairying and other branches of farming. A ll of these nat urally wish to keep in close touch with agricultural activi ties throughout the state; and to know about any fight which is being waged for the measures O regon farmers want and against all sorts of schemes that are detrimental to the people and agri cultural interests of this state. * * t 4 * * a 1 _ f • • ' * >— • W e have, therefore, made a special clubbing arrangement with THE OREGON FARMER whereby any fa rm er or fru it grower, who is one of our regular subscribers and who is not now a subscriber of THE CwEGON FARMER , will be en titled to receive THE OREGON FARMER in combination with this paper at the same rate as for this paper alone. ♦ ♦ T h is offer applies to all those who renew or extend their sub- criptions as well as to all new subscribers, If you are interested directly or indirectly in O regon agriculture, do not miss this unusual o p p ortu n ty but send your order in now. * ♦ * THE OREGON FARMER is the one farm paper which is devoting itself exclusively to the farming activities and interests of O regon . It has a big organization gathering the news of importance to farmers, dairymen, fruitgrowers, stockraisers and poultrymen; and it has the backbone to attack wrongful methods and combinations and bad legislation, and support honest leaders and beneficial measures. W e are confident that our readers will congratulate us on our being able to make this splendid and attractive clubbing offer.; ♦ ♦ ' * ♦ * ♦ ECONOMY ___ U u l i In a tiifv. and • co o l kitchen » new Pi on.cc COQUILLE H ARDW ARE CO. Gctting Gold sad Fktfaram. Last Sunday M autos and 7 » pas sengers crossed on the Marehfleld- Eastside ferryboat Transit. | Sheriff Gage and local otteers raid ed the Hardy on her arrival from San Francisco at 6 a. m. Friday morn ing but found no booao o f any kind on board. It was stated Saturday that the Coos Bay shipbuilding company would commence work immediately on a shipyard, the site fo r which has been obtained at the coal bunkers, south ¡of the railroad depot. The company [expects to be awarded fou r vessels by the government, but will build vessels whether government contracts are ob tained or not. Machinery been ordered and is looked fo r in the near future. W ord was received here Thursday afternoon that Kruse 4k Banks had been swarded the construction o f six vessels fo r the federal merchant fleet. The Arm intends operating flve ways, which means doubling their present J. B. Stenerson, who hue u 1 m m ou the Beech Dredging Co.’» property at Whiskey Bun, and who represent« a placer mining machinery company at Spokane, W ash., ha» one o f the pat ented machine» on the ground and 1» giving it a thorough tryout. During a tan day»' run o f three shifts, working fou r m m and hand ling 100 yard» per sh ift or 800 yards per day, they cleaned up an average e f 823.(0 pey day above expenses, fig uring the. labor o f each man at $4 per day and board. The number o f donkey engines fu r nishing the power to run the machin ery w ill be increased from one to three and a larger yardage o f sand Mr. Stenerson states that the gold and platinum recovered is from the ing hauled to the concentrator by scrapgr and cable operated by a don key engine. In the final values he finds the proportion o f gold and plat- inum run about one and three-quar ters to tw o ounces o f gold to each ounce o f platinum. The gold is e f high quality, bing alm ost pu r», The platinum concentrates run about platinum, the remainder being omni um and other rare «m i valuable m et als. Platinui^ is now selling from THE SENTINEL, One Year - - ■ THE OREGON FARMER, One Year i_____ Total - . - - . . . - - All furnished for $1.50 to subscribe] STRICTLY IN ADVANCE Many o f our readers among the old er residents o f this section hove been more or less interested in mining ven- turee at W hiskey run, and the follow ing about the predent production there, which we clip from the Bandon W orld cannot fa il to intardkt them: paying The Same Old Story. The need o f the sort o f warning contained fa the follow ing story from the Gold*Bench Globe never fa ils: whoM fath er purchased her p bond A disastrous and fatal fire occurred when she w as 8 hours old. Th# purchaser o f a Liberty Loan Jackson home. A daughter about 18 yeara old sought to replenish the fire with coal oil, to tauM it to burn bet ter, and in applying the liquid an ex- Ploeion occurred, burning the girl badly and setting fire to the house, "W eb was consumed with all its con- Friday night, seven radius o f thirty mUm being given a share o f this re-eoeking. Eighty oaas o f little fishes came in en tm in No. I thirty o f the local sportsmen with fifteen autoe and the distribution was completed end all the ca n back la their garages before sunrise Satur day morning. On Thursday evening A . J. Sher wood, president o f the Coquilte Red and Gun Club, received a telegram from Master Fish Warden Clanton announcing (he arrival e f the ear Fri day evening and he at once began a canvass o f the local m em ben with the result that all the necessary ca n w en provided and the extra men to Coquilte aqd ttqg with old 1